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Latest festival news – Page 2
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NewsDirector Nina Knag talks forbidden liaisons in her Karlovy Vary premiere ‘Don’t Call Me Mama’
Norwegian director’s debut centres on a respected pillar of the community who has an affair with a young asylum seeker.
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NewsBFI London Film Festival selects opening film for 2025
Third time the festival has opened with a Netflix title.
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NewsLemohang Mosese’s documentary among Locarno Open Doors feature screenings
This year’s programme is dedicated to emerging voices from Africa.
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News‘Battalion Records’, ‘In Vacuo’ lead Karlovy Vary industry winners
UK project ‘Soyboy’ also among awardees.
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NewsRadu Jude’s Locarno selection ‘Dracula’ lands North American deal
Ambitious fledgling New York distributor 1-2 Special in business with Jude again.
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NewsCoproduction Office boards Syeyoung Park’s Korean sci-fi ‘The Fin’ ahead of Locarno premiere
EXCLUSIVE: Park’s second feature is set in a post-war, ecologically devasted Korea.
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NewsLocarno unveils 2025 line-up including premiere of Radu Jude’s ‘Dracula’
Seventeen world premieres will compete at the Swiss festival, running from August 6-16.
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NewsBe For Films boards Locarno opener ‘In The Land of Arto’
EXCLUSIVE: Camille Cottin and Zar Amir star in the French-language film directed by Tamara Stepanyan.
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News‘Kika’, ‘Okamoto’ among Munich 2025 competition winners
Prizes also went to David Bim’s ’To The West, In Zapata’ and Cole Webley’s ’Omaha’.
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News‘Karla’, ‘Sechswochenamt’ dominate prizes at Munich’s German Cinema New Talent awards
Munich’s German Cinema New Talent awards showcases rising local talents.
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News‘A Poet’ producers win Munich’s €100,000 CineCoPro prize
The cash prize is presented by Germany’s FFF Bayern.
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NewsPeter Sarsgaard calls for “collective action” at Karlovy Vary opening
Festival pays tribute to Jiri Bartoska, screening an hour-long interview with the late president.
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NewsUkraine’s Dmytro Hreshko on documenting the ecological impact of Russia’s full-scale invasion
Hreshko’s documentary Divia, which world premieres at Karlovy Vary, has been a labour of love during extraordinarily difficult times.
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NewsFrom Cannes shorts to Karlovy Vary competition: Lithuania’s Vytautas Katkus on his feature debut ‘The Visitor’
Katkus, also known for his work as a cinematographer, world premieres his feature directorial debut at Karlovy Vary.
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NewsGerman production execs voice despair at slow progress of tax incentive reform
Several production service companies have gone bust as international production has moved outside of the country
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NewsHungarian filmmaker Bence Fliegauf on Karlovy Vary premiere ‘Jimmy Jaguar’: “It’s a consensual mind-f**k”
The Berlinale and Locarno-winning director’s genre film is playing in the Crystal Globe competition.
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NewsGenndy Tartakovsky’s adult animation ‘Fixed’ to close Fantasia fest
Troma founder Lloyd Kaufman to receive Indie Maverick Award, as organisers announce third wave of programming.
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NewsElena Oxman’s ‘Outerlands’ wins first Queer Media Society award in Munich
‘Outerlands’ premiered at SXSW in March.
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NewsLoco Films boards Karlovy Vary coming-of-age drama ‘The Luminous Life’
The Lisbon-set drama is the feature debut of Portuguese filmmaker João Rosas.
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NewsMediterrane Film Festival wraps its third edition with fireworks, arias and Russell Crowe
The Golden Bee award for best feature went to Tunisian filmmaker Amel Guellaty’s Where The Wind Comes From.